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Never get another marketing email again
- MrDOS 13y agoWhat, and throw out any legitimate e-mail that contains the word “unsubscribe”? Seems a little heavy-handed to me.
- yannyu 13y agoGood idea on the face of it, but do Gmail filters let you create exceptions? There are plenty of useful emails that also have "unsubscribe" in the body.
- rrhoover 13y agoClever :)
- mvkel 13y agoSweet, I'll be sure to change our marketing missives to say "remove subscription"!
- kine 13y agoHah, there you go. I'll update my filter accordingly.
- alexhancock 13y agoThis would catch a lot of things I wouldn't want to block. It doesn't seem like a great solution to me.
- orangethirty 13y agoWon't work with black hat email marketers.
- ctdonath 13y agoSpeaking of which: any suggestions on ending the deluge of likely black-hat spam? Shrinking hoses, Russian brides, plenty of other crap which darn near screams "if you hit 'unsubscribe' we'll know we have a live one and send you more!"
- orangethirty 13y agoI wish I knew. (:
- jamestanderson 13y agoThe false positives this would generate, in my opinion, outweigh any benefit of having such a filter. I'd rather manually unsubscribe from marketing emails, since, as the author says, the "unsubscribe" functionality is so prevalent.
- betterunix 13y agoA bayesian filter is probably sufficient to do this, and will probably do a better job in terms of false positives.
- ph33t 13y agoso if i do this, every list server that i subscribe to will be junked because normally have unsubscribe info in them ...
- danmaz74 13y agoThis way you're going to receive only the real spam (that doesn't give a damn about any CAN-SPAM act) and stop all the legitimate newsletters you could easily unsubscribe from... not to mention false positives that just talk about "unsubscribe" for any reason.
- StacyC 13y agoI'm OK with some false positives because I think there will be very few in my case. And I can check the Junk folder once in a while to see if there's anything I want to keep. I like it.
- qeorge 13y agoI've had this enabled for about 2 months, and its been nothing short of amazing. (picked it up from an HN thread somewhere). Cannot recommend this highly enough. Yes, there's the occasional false positive, but its surprisingly rare. I pop into my "Unsubscribes" folder every few days to make sure nothing is caught, just like my Spam folder. If there's a false positive, I make a new rule in Outlook. Seriously, try it. You'll be surprised how nice it is, like a clean apartment.